screech

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
screech/skriːtʃ/

▶noun a loud, harsh, piercing cry or sound. ▶verb

• 1 make a screech.

• 2 move rapidly with a screech.

– derivatives
screecher noun,
screechy adjective.

– origin C16 (as v.): alt. of archaic scritch, of imitative origin.